Exhibition “Shared Images” July 8th to August 8th 2016

“Shared Images” is the first group exhibition of members of the Wednesday Painting Group.

The Essential School of Painting celebrates a collection of painting from artists attending The Essential School of Painting’s Wednesday Painting Group.

Following a year of intense and collaborative work, this year’s group worked on personal projects drawing inspiration from nature, local scenes and previous experience as far afield as Silver-smithing, Illustration and China restoration. The show is the culmination of each artist’s personal journey within the group.

Heather Dyer:

Living in and working in Bow in London’s East-End, Heather’s current work focuses on painting local scenes of Hertford Union, Regent’s Canal and Victoria Park. Drawing inspiration from the work of Ivon Hitchens, Richard Diebenkorn, Peter Doig and Claude Monet, Heather works mainly in Oils and Watercolours offering a very personal way of looking at the urban landscape and creating a pictorial language that resonates with the viewer. Heather creative journey began when she came first at an ILEA exhibition for her painting of an interior bedroom in a French mansion. This piece later went on to exhibit at the Whitechapel Open.

Heather Dyer 2016 Oil on canvas

She continued to develop her artistic work and went on to have a successful solo show followed by a Group Print Show both at Gallery Cafe in Bethnal Green. Recently she has produced work for the East-end canal festival to be held at the Art Pavilion in Mile End Park.

Krystyna Hamera:

Krystyna’s previous work made use of ephemeral materials like dust, salt, ash, sound and reflection to explore impermanence, loss and domesticity with regards to identity. Her installations have been formed and exhibited outside the gallery space such as churches, derelict ruins and public spaces. Recently she has been seeking out new challenges in subject matter and technique using oils. Her figures are stylised in form and most compositions revolve around one central figure placed on the trapeze, drifting or sinking in boats. She uses these motifs metaphorically to stand for inner feelings with regards to her constructions of present day narratives.

Louise Rice:

Louise Rice 2016 Oil on canvas

Louise’s study of art history in university has been a backdrop to her life. She has worked as a china restorer, decorator of painted furniture and ran a successful framing business. She has exhibited in Mall Galleries London, had a solo exhibition at the Cherwell Boathouse and participated in group exhibitions in Oxfordshire. As an artist she is prompted to start a painting often after noticing something, however random that fires up her imagination. An intuitive painter Louise delights in colour.

Peter Dixon:

Peter is a student of the Essential School of Painting. He has attended  the artist Adrian Wiszniewski’s classes ‘The Golden Thread’ and today is an active participant in John Myers’s Painting the River Course. His paintings reflect his ever growing confidence in composition and tone.

Sarah Bishop:

Sarah Bishop acrylic on Canvas 2016

Sarah’s enthusiasm for painting comes from a love of colour and nature. Having grown up in the country-side she takes her inspiration from the myriad of colours and patterns found in flowers, fruits and vegetables ever conscious of the changing seasons of the English landscape.

Wendy D’Souza-Daniels:

Wendy uses her upbring in the Kent countryside to bring colour and imagination to her work, as illustrator and qualified silversmith, her work in unique enamelled pieces has exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in Goldsmith’s Hall. Wendy is an eclectic painter who works in Oils, Acrylics and Watercolour. There is a sense of life and change in Wendy’s artwork with ideas based on nature and the environment around her; colour line and fluid forms are integral to the work. Her artwork appears in private collections in the UK, Canada and Middle-east. For the Arts Olympiad in 2012 Wendy was commission to produce a large mural that’s still on display today.

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